The economically viable use of HTS superconductors poses strict demands on the manufacturing and operational losses of superconducting tapes. Both these losses are minimized with an appropriate choice of tape cross-section ...

Glycerol is produced in large amounts as a by-product in biodiesel industry (10 kg per 100 kg biodiesel). By-products and waste materials are typically economical substrates for bioprocesses. Furthermore, microorganisms ...

This thesis focuses on the analysis and development of High-Performance LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillators (VCO) tailored for wireless communications. The frequency instabilities of the VCO signal, or poor phase noise ...

The users of modern design software for electrical appliances can accidentally attempt an analysis of ill-posed design problems, ones with no sensible solution. It is tedious to track down such mistakes manually, but certain ...

Technology transfer is the process of transferring knowledge and technology from one country to another. There are two basic approaches for implementing technology transfer; the horizontal approach and the vertical approach. ...

Information and communication technology (ICT), a discipline of engineering, has radically changed the ways in which we process and use information. Medicine has been one of the first application areas of modern ICT, since ...

This study looked into the moisture performance of timber-framed external wall assemblies in Finnish climatic conditions by examining the effects of the diffusion of water vapour in wall assemblies.
The study has been ...

This thesis describes the design, implementation and use of a software package for hypermedia based learning on mathematical sciences. The software package integrates hypertext, computer-aided exercises, graphics, videos ...

Today, signal processing has a central role in many of the advancements in systems biology. Modern signal processing is required to provide efficient computational solutions to unravel complex problems that are either ...

The usage of digital cameras is continually increasing. The digitalcamera applications range from entertainment to science. Due to easiness of use, innumerable digital images are produced.
A digital camera is a complex ...

Proliferation of digital capture, storage and networking systems makes creation of image collections very easy. A difficult and unsolved problem is the formation of computerized image databases which would enable precise ...

The number of partnerships has been increasing quickly in the USA since the mid-1970s and also in Finland since the late 1990s. Partnering is one of competitive actions a firm can make in order to improve its position in ...

This thesis presents research work related to the impedance control of redundant manipulators. The main goal is to study the effects of redundancy on the dynamic behaviour of manipulators. Firstly, theoretical developments ...

Procuring of operations from external service providers has become a common practice among manufacturing companies in recent years. This kind of outsourcing transfers some tasks to an external service provider organisation ...

With ever higher data rates, the complexity of baseband processing increases basically for two reasons. Firstly, the required processing rate is proportional to the bit rate and, secondly, with higher data rates, more ...

Research of profit- and risk-sharing implications aimed at improving collaboration performance has been focused on parcelled goods manufacturing. In this context, research has shown that profit- and risk-sharing is an ...

In this work we are motivated by the question: "How to automatically adapt to, or learn, structure in the past inputs of an algorithm?".
This question might arise from the need to decrease the amount of consumed resources, ...

Latest image technology improvements along with the Internet growth have led to a huge amount of digital multimedia during the recent decades. Various methods, algorithms and systems have been proposed addressing image ...

Osteomyelitis is a severe bacterial infection that is considered to be one of the most-difficult-to-treat infections. It causes the destruction of bone tissue and the treatment often includes surgical debridement that ...

This thesis provides means to increase the statistical power of analysis in brain positron emission tomography (PET) neuroreceptor studies. Despite its importance, this topic has remained relatively unexplored. The most ...